2021/22 €50 Draft H2H league

So we have 4 from last year -

klopparama

Dearg81

CSF

Trimm Trabb

It’s now open to everyone else and we are hoping to teach the cap of 8 players.

I believe remoteboy is interested.

The 4 from last year have until the 31st of August to pay if that’s ok with everyone.

i think we’ll have to do a ‘first pay first play’ for anyone else.

CSF is collecting the funds for this competition.

The draft itself is currently scheduled to kick off at 22.30 on Tuesday the 10th of August

I should have said this is a ‘winner takes all’ league.

The rules for ties are as follows -

In the event of a tie, whoever has the most overall weekly H2H wins is declared the winner. If that is also a tie then their actual H2H’s, against each other, are counted. If it is still tied then the combined scores in those weekly H2H’s will determine the winner.

This is the purest form of FPL so if you haven’t played before I suggest you give it a whirl.

Finally -

CSF will you please outline how you’d like to receive the money in regards what you do, or don’t, want said on the payment.

CSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666559#Comment_117666559

Paypal please, all I want is username on the reference. No details of anything more than that

remoteboy

Grand. Payday this Friday. Will sort you then. Thanks again.

So that will leave 3 places up for grabs.

Gonna bump this every other day til we fill it or til deadline.

it’s a great comp and really hope we get the 3 we need.

It’s the purest form of the game boys.

only one manager can own Kane

who will it be ?

Dearg81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117682574#Comment_117682574

Pep?

remoteboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667078#Comment_117667078

Sent you that now.

Xander10

haven't done a Draft league before, so will give it a go, if space still available.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117685004#Comment_117685004

Good stuff.

payment to CSF and he’ll provide you with the league code.

only 2 places available now.

there’s nothing more exciting than draft day.

CSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117685026#Comment_117685026

Can vouch for this. Am genuinely confused that we're not turning people away for this

remoteboy

Has the code gone out yet?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117688740#Comment_117688740

Think CSF will send the code as he receives the entry fee.

He is pretty busy as I think he’s trying to keep the non paid leagues afloat so if you have paid then maybe just pm him as he may have forgotten.

I think last season we all used our Boards usernames for our team names as it helped with keeping track of what was going on.

It worked quite well if ye want to do it again ?

Xander10

I feel like a lamb to the slaughter entering this. I might need a crash course on the rules. Might have a look around FF website.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117689155#Comment_117689155

You won’t be.

If you are going to research anyway to improve your draft games I suggest you focus on the ‘waivers’.

That’s the biggest part of the game once the initial draft has happened.

Like most things in life it’s much easier doing than reading.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1245444

CSF

Code sent to remoteboy and Xander10.

Just waiting to sort funds with TrimmTrabbs and Dearg81, both of which should be no problem, so if we can get 1 or 2 (preferably 2 although I know we only had 7 last year and it was absolutely fine) more that'll be great.

remoteboy

Thanks for running this CSF and for helping me get logged in. I have my first stupid question. Trying to understand difference between Waiver and Free Agency. Is it just a matter of timing - ie up to 24 hours before gameweek Waiver rules apply and then Free Agency kicks in?

CSF

Exactly, there’ll be a waiver the day before the gameweek starts. That’s done with whoever is last having first pick etc. And once that waiver wire has passed you can make as many moves as you wish until the FPL deadline

Trimm Trabb

Sent my Money there CSF - I’m using the site so sparingly it had slipped my mind.

Dearg81

Send me on your payment details CSF and I'll send you the money today, I can't find them in my inbox.

CSF

Done

Dearg81

Ok I've paid up. The new boards UI PMs didn't appear for me until I clicked on my user icon so I had a few missed messages, it's a really poor UI.

CSF

6 people paid up now. I think we need at least 1 more, but preferably the full 2.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117695828#Comment_117695828

Yeah.

only 8 days now until the draft.

can only imagine it’s the lack of traffic that is stoping this from being full.

remoteboy

Might be worth mentioning it on the Discord server. See if it gets any traction there.

Good thinking.

you’re welcome to do so because I’m struggling with that platform.

Less than a week to go to draft day.

roll up

2 more speakers to fill

Two things lads -

can you change your team name to your boards username so we all know who we are playing. It worked much better this way last season.

also, what do you want re league size ? If no one else joins will I reduce the number of teams to 6, or 7 depending, so we are playing each other every week and are not playing the ‘average score’ team. Personally I think we should play each other and **** off ‘average’.

for the guys that didn’t play last season - if you have a league of 8 teams but only 7 entrants then the league generates an ‘average team score’ for that week and you play against it in your weeks H2H. So every 6th week you’d play against that weeks average score.

CSF

7 would be better than 6. Given that we have quite a reasonable entry fee, 6 still wouldn't be the end of the world though

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117707524#Comment_117707524

I didn’t explain myself properly

ive got the league capped at 8 currently and hopefully we do fill it.

if 8 hours before deadline, for the actual draft, we have 6 or 7 entrants I can edit the league to cap it at that, current, number thus removing the ‘average’ team.

So do all agree to that ?

CSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117707612#Comment_117707612

With it being H2H, if its 7 people, won't we need the average team so that everyone has a game each week?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117707625#Comment_117707625

Ha. Yeah.

I did that thing where I wrote without thinking.

Apologies and sorry for confusing everyone.

2 spots still available

Just bumping this as we head into the weekend.

2 places still available for a league that offers great week-to-week interaction.

F1ngers

Payment sent.

CSF

Ooh, I actually got the email before I saw the message here. Welcome aboard my friend, will send on the code now

Just 1 spot left now.

Only 3 days til draft day.

roll up.

who do we see as first pick ?

gotta be Salah, Fernandes and then Kane ?

Dearg81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117731440#Comment_117731440

Yea I think so. What's the craic with Lukaku, will he be added before Saturday and then whoever is last after week 1 will get him?

F1ngers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117731614#Comment_117731614

That's the plan. :pac:

Miss pacman, not the same when you have to type it out.

CSF

Still 1 spot left (to replace average) if anyone is reading this discussion and thinking 'I'd love a bit of that action'. The draft is happening at 10:30 this evening.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117731614#Comment_117731614

Yeah. The only benefit to losing your first H2H.

I’ll not be throwing 3 points for it though.

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117731614#Comment_117731614

I need to keep studying the rules. We're playing h2h, what happens when joint last?

Surely, player 8 will join up today, c'mon let's be havin you!

CSF

Sands81 has paid up and signed up to the league. We have 8. See you all this evening for some drafting. If I get pick 2 or 3 tonight, you know I'm a happy man. I don't need number 1.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117731830#Comment_117731830

there will be a way to determine each position other than just the H2H win or loss

you could lose your H2H 55-49 and another guy could lose 50-25 and the latter would be below the former due to points difference.

Or it could be just the lowest losing weekly score will be last.

I can’t remember which.

CSF

Slightly over 2 hours to go lads

remoteboy

So tense

Trimm Trabb

Pity about Lukaku, gonna throw things off balance. There should be good players for first pick on waiver right up until end of August, they fact the transfer window closed before the start of the season was actually better for draft.

Im away on holidays and WiFi is somewhat dodgy so hoping I don’t have to rely on a hastily thrown together watch list. Got Pogba and a couple of other duds last year due to dodgy internet. I think I’d like somewhere between pick 4, but definitely not pick 8.

Hope everyone’s heart can take the strain and let’s get some team pictures up when it’s all done.

CSF

Pick number 8 really was not an ideal spot. Sancho as my number 1 pick was not really the kind of risk I was mad into the idea of taking.